Quotes on Birthday

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.